By Matthew Decker, Assistant Professor of English and Co-Coordinator of the Digital Storytelling Internship, with Jamie Gillan, Associate Professor of English and Co-Coordinator of the Digital Storytelling Internship, Montgomery College For many Montgomery College community members, March 2020 was a stressful time. Faculty and students learned they would not be returning to their physical classrooms, and […]

By Dr. Lucinda Grinnell, Acting Manager WRLC, Rockville , Tanya Camp, Manager WRLC, Takoma Park/Silver Spring , Dr. Elysse Meredith, Manager WRLC, Germantown , Dr. Elizabeth Benton, Professor of English, Rockville When COVID-19 forced a shift to emergency remote learning, our team of learning center managers utilized every second of those first couple of weeks to evaluate and […]

By Emily Rosado, Professor of English, Montgomery College As a young college student in the 1990s, I was browsing through the clothing racks of Bloomingdale’s one day when I overheard a conversation between two employees who were roughly around my age. The mention of Jennifer Lopez perked my ears because at the time (and perhaps […]

  Montgomery College was awarded an  ATD OER grant to develop z-degree pathways for the General Studies Degree. For MC Open and the General Studies Program, Open Educational Resources (OER) are an opportunity to : Promote student success by encouraging faculty to redesign courses using Open Educational Reso urces(OER) and pedagogies that engage, connect, and […]

By  Art Grinath and Bruce Madariaga Introduction As the cost of hard-copy college textbooks continues to rise, calls from students and administrators for professors to instead adopt free or low-cost online course materials have risen in volume. Understandably, many instructors have resisted such calls, not wanting to adopt uncoordinated and incomplete collections of online material […]